leader hans la land grabs the presidency spelling change that for the rooms. there one in the afternoon monday afternoon here in moscow this is our team our name is kevin owen and our top story as you will have just seen if you've been with us for the last hour or so we've seen bloody a putin sworn in as russia's next president in a grand ceremony at the kremlin is third term as the country's leader kicked off for now he'll now hold the post for the next six years of course and taking us through the special event we had people have with us he's our resident political commentator of crosstalk is still here in the studio becoming two in a second but let's cross to our correspondent and this is now way in red square and also election inside the kremlin we saw them as well to start with first election. it's been a short but grand ceremony as you were telling us just now and as we saw what was

it like inside the kremlin was doing it all well just about twenty minutes ago this particular hall where i'm standing right now that you're just go to the city hall was just packed with people when most three thousand guests were here v.a.p. guests from different spheres from scores from from the military from the political elite now they have all have relocated to a different hall inside the kremlin for a glamorous dinner party with some absolutely delicious things on the menu still people applauded when. i took his oath to become russia's next president for the next six years i believe we have a chance to listen to this speech of oath for it which was just thirty three words long these rewards shorter than the one of the american president. as i fulfilled you chief of the president of the russian federation i swear to protect and guaranteed rights and freedoms of our citizens to observe and protect the constitution of the russian federation to protect the sovereignty independence

and territorial integrity of os take it easy to serve its people faithfully. now as i've mentioned thirty thousand so guess what here during the immigration ceremony one of them was just lucky kind of staging a deputy and he's here to talk to me about how the country's about to change with this transition of power now suddenly we see a change of roles now putting us back in the kremlin it is likely to become the prime minister and move to the government white house. will this change of roles in the tandem be something of a symbolic thing or will we see some political changes and that's no differently they're not political questions they have different agendas they have different teams and the change is not just retreat my mind or if you will put more emphasis on such issues as human capital development. economic growth. infrastructure development strengthening russia's might be due for the journey was a little bit different it was more on the border decision on changes in the

political situations. not being quizzed through just similar would if we represent the same team. just in brief what do you think. president c. will be remembered for the last four years of president invidious will be remembered first as crisis manager. who was the one who was responsible for crisis management during the economic depression. if you manage pretty well today russia because of it was better off than before the crisis of the people didn't last much and he was crisis management to the war and so to sit here and in the relationship between russia and the west but with it is not a figure of the best. he's also very much a figure of the present and the future to morrow he will be inaugurated as the potential prime minister will leave the chances of being elected. we have seen

some really drastic dramatic with changes in russia over the past six months or so do you think this course of changes politically will will continue with this new president will there will be a lot of political turbulence of course and the new political forces which are registering as political for use like one hundred fifty of them that there will be entry to political stage that will definitely be a russian political scene more compared. to the scene to the music the government should present more results to be more competitive in the next elections. which is agenda is pretty ambitious. i think it's too. big russia the fifth largest economy. in this six year span we think it's possible and also to me question the world countries including the and normal democratic. right thank you so much this was a just left you can a first aid deputy talking with us here in the kremlin said it would be trying to

talk to more guests of the ceremony here and will be coming live as soon as we have more yes information for you absolutely. yes he thanks ever so much this cross no two in this in our she's outside the kremlin for taking all in the how as opposed to the missile won a large majority to returning to power but it wasn't of course with the support of everyone was that. it was not all and in fact just on the eve of this inauguration and we saw an enormous protest really in the center of moscow we also saw pro pro turn rallies but what turned ugly were the opposition rallies i'll give you a little more details about that in a second really though what it comes down to and i think a lot of analysts will agree here is that the main consensus is that either way if putin wants this third term to be a success. what he has to do is show he's ready for changes. he's back for an unprecedented third term after a break as prime minister and many say russia will need to see putin two point zero

any data who's been in power for five six seven years in a difficult position because people get used to him and taken for granted he has to then reinvent himself putin has made the promise ahead of the poll he proposed vast reforms from a major crackdown on corruption to diversifying the economy and raising living standards it's delicious it'll be students next term will be the one that forms his legacy as a politician in russian history and i'm sure it will be a positive one. but the people to be convinced most are the opposition who gathered in the largest numbers russia has seen for decades after claims a vast front in december's duma vote and clashed with riot police on the eve of putin's inauguration. he needs to set out for reform and not a reform on paper but something real something that both the opposition and you

know the regular people not just in moscow but all throughout russia can see that this is really putin two point zero the most popular politician no doubt has a majority of support across russia and is credited with extraordinary development in the country but putin leaves few people in different at home and abroad it usually comes down to love or hate but i don't think that everything that putin has done is defensible or by a by a very wide stretch but there are some people who argue in such transparent bad faith that it's you know it's impossible not to notice that it's just it's a person it's a personality thing in the west he's seen as harsher than me especially on foreign policy which could prove. to be a challenge on issues like the reset with the u.s. and pushes for intervention in the middle east but on the economic front analysts have already sense to change at least three key issues to entry privatization

investment climate reform we see. putin changing his. emphasis and direction on particular issues in a way which corresponds with a political shift a shift that is most evident on the web russians have never been more active in politics blocs twitter facebook or something putin will have to embrace if he wants to stay in touch yes to participate otherwise you'd be excluded and you would have the other russia which talks its own language and the president will talk his language leaving the question now that he's back can putin move forward. now just about an hour or so before this inauguration began we did see a small group of protesters gathered just across from us here and yes and i a square some people were detained but it remained relatively peaceful compared to what we saw on sunday where the mood really is that it's become clear that

a couple of people that really provoked the violence have ruined in a sense the reputation of what is so far been a very peaceful and even sometimes festive movement for political change in the country ok in this thank your thoughts there from outside the kremlin much appreciated we bring back into the conversation people of well host of course of cross talk show peter may the seventh monday may the seventh two thousand and twelve new day new president but is it a new is it a new putin it's a question it's an evolving thing. we've seen and there's there's no. pizza let me help people you don't see the most speaking device. we there we go now. back to you back in business yeah. what i see what we have is clinton is evolving i

mean as he pointed out in her report foreign investors i've noticed this here russia needs foreign investment you're talking about domestic political changes more voices are being heard now i'm even happy that russian media is a lot more critical of the government and policies and even in mr putin himself which is something relatively new it's self-censorship more than anything else but i think it is a evolving putin it's not a new one or an old one but every politician has to keep up with the time speech talked about his five top priorities just go through the first of all continuing positive demographic trends that was a problem a couple years ago it has turned a corner yeah but if you talk about demographic change you would have to have jobs have to have education you have to have infrastructure you can have the baby yet you have to follow up and this is a plane where you have to deal with security you know we have the situation in the caucuses always there with us unfortunately terrorism is not a foreign idea here also job creation i mean we have young people going into the marketplace not looking at workers in

a traditional sense we're looking at high tech and you need jobs that challenge people and they keep people here as well and paid well ok that's something that's going to be done economic performance in general brush is gone through the economic crisis very well compared to other countries but it's not enough a whole lot more has to be done with the banking system and investment in general former soviet republics not forgotten either well you know it's the neighborhood you know russia has a large neighborhood it's evolving there are political situations are very different but you can have trade you can have integration with companies and other issues it's a neighborhood you have to deal with immigration is a big problem as well and it can be a negative problem here as well in this it was talking about the protests just to say about a democratic russia you know people are always going to disagree. there are people that love latimer putin there are people in russia that hate him ok but what we need is in gauging that we have to talk to each other and i see russians talking to each other about politics i gave never seen in the entire time i've lived here that's a very positive sign but there's always going to be people who don't like him he

has to get used to that and foreign policy peter who is always going to well look after his own national interest will disagree with the west on issues and will continue to work with them piracy for example with the internet these things bring all of us together but there are some issues the middle east for example the united states and russia are going to disagree with thinking about syria and thing about libya think about nato missile defense these issues here the goal is not really big when are we going to see fireworks or speak about how you know who is going to tell you doesn't matter who the president of russia is russia's interest stable say ok and so don't look for a big change. people of all things ever so much push a. political commentator and of course from still a bit of the cross talk show. bahraini authorities arrested the country's main human rights activist who's been one of the leaders of the uprising there was detained late saturday on his arrival from lebanon it comes just days before his appearance on julian assange as you show here on r.t. with a whistleblower quizzed him and an egyptian activist over the revolutions in the

arab states bennett reports. well the authorities are said is that now bill rand job is being suspected of committing a number of crimes punishable by law and he's now being held on charges of inciting and taking part in illegal demonstrations and it should be remembered though that position has landed him in a number of made in the target even of the bahraini authorities before because he is a highly prominent activist there and also one of the most vocal outspoken critics of the country's ruling family and that's really what makes this next episode. so significant because this is this is thought to be. the last interview before his latest arrest now is considered one of the heroes of the first protests that took place in bahrain last february he's now got over one hundred forty thousand followers on twitter because he's the head of the bahraini center for human rights and he's really the driving force behind the mass demonstrations that we're still

seeing in the streets of bahrain despite a government ban on on public protests there since it became known that he was appearing on sanjay and that's that's what he elaborates on in this next episode and what i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to. t.v. program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns. you do realize that i was not at home just. to tell me to come to do prosecutors today at four o'clock where i am here so the very day that he was summoned by the public prosecutor's office in bahrain he actually chose instead to appear on as angie's talk show and and appear on r.t. using the platform as an international platform even to criticize the regime in bahrain and it's for this reason that june as stanage things why he's been arrested basically by appearing on this. ranch i would indeed be

risking a great deal but even so. he that he would be willing to pay any consequences that come of it because he says he would be fighting in the name of democracy this is what he had to say it's not the first but this is the struggle this is the freedom this is democracy that we are fighting for as of course. we have to be a discourse and of course it might be very expensive as we have been causing but we're willing to believe that all the changes that we are fighting for now one of the other guests this week on a do not show is another prominent activists in the in the arab spring his name is our abdel fattah he was a he was a highly influential figure in the uprising in egypt last year in tahrir square that like right up to has become a target of the or thora sees the fact that you know sound is leaking to the very people who are making leave things happen in these countries and are willing to face the consequences as we've seen with now bill roggio with his arrest this

weekend well that really what that's what makes this next episode really one that's not to be missed and you can catch it here marty is being shown at eleven thirty g.m.t. this tuesday. to speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain for the revolution failed was really egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. of the website in four was dot com told us now stands out among other activists in organizations for actually being unbiased. mr rajab is significant figure in the human rights movement globally no bill has been arrested in the past has been detained has been beaten possibly tortured so this should come as no surprise now with the western press as out of the country there's less of an

opportunity for them to to really zero in on some of the human rights abuses that the bahraini government has become very well known for you can also tell illegitimate human rights worker or human rights organization from a manipulative one if they're criticizing the u.s. or british how why they're more likely to be legitimate human rights organization and not manipulated ones so mr rajoy because i believe he's got his finger on the pulse of genuine human rights situation in bahrain when you're criticizing a u.s. ally like bahrain if you're in the press you're not going to be given the air time as much as you would if you're criticizing the assad government that's why this will wash away within days or weeks on kevin i mean this is r t and still ahead this hour guns and votes syria is holding its first parliamentary election in decades after president assad adopted a new constitution but the opposition vows to boycott the vote calling it a farce we report. big story overnight francois hollande defeated nicolas sarkozy

the french presidential runoff making him then the latest a you needed to be swept aside by that crippling debt crisis among the first steps the president elect is planning is to push back against german led austerity measures already chancellor angela merkel's invited hollande to berlin for talks now these tests are a set of reports from paris. it's very quiet because they had big celebrations last night b.-f. last year was certainly having a big party until the morning now for us all and in his acceptance speech yesterday did talk a lot about unity which has been much of the theme of his entire campaign he said he's the one who's going to bring about solidarity and unity in criticizing a sarkozy's divisive presidency but of course the unity he's talking about does hinge on his ability to bring about the promises that he had made particularly the practical promises of jobs and employment and this is a no easy feat given the the economic circumstances of france said again he the first thing he wanted to do is to talk to german chancellor angela merkel to push

for this growth or yet that approach and he has a lot of supporters on this approach however even the supporters are skeptical as to how much he can really do given the constraints i mean france is a part of the euro zone there are sixteen other nations who are using this currency there are a lot of rules to be followed and so they're looking at how much maneuver room he really have and it comes to international dealings there's going to be the nato summit and he had said that he wants to pull out french troops from afghanistan a year earlier than planned he will have to and he's expected to present this blood to president barack obama and the the rest of the nato alliance and also when it comes to issues like syria iran observers are saying that we may expect a less aggressive press whatever this observation is based on the rhetoric so far so of course we have to see the actions that this new president will be taking now french people at the end of the day said that they voted for change but let's not forget that when nicolas sarkozy was voted in two thousand and seven they also voted for change so it's in france hold on does have

a lot of work to do ahead of him and prove that he does a service presidency more than a website called the latest from today's presidential inauguration seven of course some good stories to haul water around slamming google for leaving the gold list why it's online and why find out what could be motivating you to drive to the. controversy surrounding giant pictures of stalin placed on public buses in russia. on the eve of victory day it's not going down well find out why and. syria's holding a parliamentary election today amid the shaky cease fire the first such vote and decades allows the formation of political factions to compete with the ruling baath party the opposition's already urged to boycott though saying it is president assad's attempt to cling to power rather than a willingness for reform but it ought to serve first reports many in syria say it's the best time for both sides to lay down arms damascus right now is the see it

faith is campaign pastis plastering the city for weeks more than seven thousand candidates by public support when one of the two hundred fifty seats available at thirty years old louis says he believes he's the voice of the young here and wants to bring that into the political sphere. now in syria we have some problem it's a problem of people wanting to make things really democratic everyone must go and choose someone who can speak about this problem for people in this parliament the elections being questioned at least being held during a period of extreme instability in the country it is really completely nonsense to arrange voting. on a country. people. too many cities and villages towns that attorneys one of the towns not far from damascus before the crisis it

was a popular holiday spot but over the course of the conflict is an area that is fighting with control switching from the government to the free syrian army and then back again in many ways continuing strong resistance to the regime has been a declaration of what they want. the government. safety. maybe maybe maybe any time. the price paid for its resistance has been high following the u.n. observers we find a population for him elections the last thing on their minds here inside of the almost all you've got a mark of the election campaign pasted in. the head you've got the

faces of people who died during the conflict one boy just thirteen years old many lies being lost david because of the conflict in syria is part of the reason many people are now desperate to see all sides lay down their. way there's not there's not. much. the opposition's boycott of the election is left little room for discussion here the. troops have requested some sort of monitoring. only telling teams in order to. scrutinize the elections and the results of the elections this does not happen it is one of the mistakes of the opposition does not persecute which is

one of the mistakes of the government does not encourage the opposition lack of consultation on the part of the government and lack of participation from the opposition. dented any chance that they bring about a radical change something everyone but she does but you know because of the loss of law we are fighting each other not trees were bullets and this is you know. syria. main news of the day vladimir putin has been sworn in as the new president of russia at a grand inauguration ceremony in the kremlin but dimitri medvedev handed power to the new head of state into a growth on the constitution thirty one gun salute then great improved scene after the ceremony i'll be back in just about five minutes time with the headlines but i'll leave you with a look at those highlights. he

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these are all top stories today. he's sworn in as head of state his first term as the country's leaders picked up from the post. has been one of the leaders of the uprising but that's just days before. on this channel you can watch the explosive shows throughout the day. nicolas sarkozy falls under the weight of. the presidency spending change for the year.